weekly newsletter

[Daniel Robitaille]

Michael Beattie wrote:
> I am interested in starting/working on a weekly newsletter type of
> thing.  It can be a distilled down and nicely presented summary of
> what is going on in the community, what meetings are coming up, new
> members, maybe a "featured project" or something.  I would work with
> the leaders of the different teams to get something together each week
> and mail out.
> 
> I see the target audience being people that dont want to read all the
> mailing lists but would like to see what kind of things are going on
> with the project.  I got the idea from the Gentoo Weekly newsletter so
> I guess it would be something like that.
> 
> Is something like this being worked on?  I haven't seen it.  And is
> there anyone that would like to help?  Does anyone think this is a bad
> idea for any reason?

Mike,

you should talk to Mako. Until February he was doing weekly Ubuntu Traffic, 
but it seems it was a bit too much work for him since they started appearing 
later and later until they stopped in February. 
(http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/ubuntu-traffic/index.html)

It was a great weekly thing  and I'm sure if a bunch of people would get 
together to spread out the work load, it could be revived for the benefit of 
everyone.


You should also look at The Fridge proposal 
(http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/TheFridge).  The plan is too have that web site 
running hopefully by the fall and Brezzy's release.   That would be the 
natural location for summaries of what's going on in the Ubuntu community.

Daniel